Author: Torgomian Varazdat

PRESS RELEASE
Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America
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Contact: Iris Papazian
June 30, 2005
ST. GREGORY OF DATEV SUMMER INSTITUTE
BEGINS THIS WEEKEND
Seventy-five students ranging from ages 13 to 18 will gather this
weekend at the St. Mary of Providence Center in Elverson, Pennsylvania, for
the 19th annual week-long St. Gregory of Datev Institute Armenian Christian
Studies Program, under the directorship of V. Rev. Fr. Anoushavan Tanielian,
Vicar General of the Eastern Prelacy.
For more information go to:
GARY SETIAN ANCIENT ARMENIAN COINS AWARDED
The Armenian National Education Committee (ANEC) annually awards ancient
Armenian coins to graduates of Armenian Schools who have excelled in
Armenian studies. The coins, courtesy of Mr. Gary Setian of Massachusetts,
depict Armenian royalty and are awarded to a select few students. This year
the coins were those of Levon I, King of Cilicia and were awarded to more
than 30 students.
For more information and list of students receiving the awards go to:
PRELATE AND VICAR ATTEND ORDINATION
Archbishop Oshagan and V. Rev. Fr. Anoushavan Tanielian attended the
Episcopal ordination of the Most Rev. Charles D. Balvo, Titular Archbishop
of Castello and Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand, yesterday, June 29, at St.
Patrick’s Cathedral at the invitation of His Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan,
Bishop of New York.
ARCHBISHOP OSHAGAN MAINTAINS BUSY SCHEDULE
DURING THE JULY 4TH HOLIDAY
Archbishop Oshagan’s busy schedule will continue through the July 4th
weekend.
On Sunday, July 2 he will attend the Divine Liturgy at St. Gregory the
Illuminator Church in Philadelphia.
On Sunday evening he will attend the banquet in celebration of the
Olympic games organized by the HMEM in Philadephia. On Monday, July 4 he
will preside over the Olympic Parade and Closing Ceremonies.
On Sunday he will travel to Elverson, Pennsylvania, to visit the
“Datevatzis” who will be beginning their week-long studies at the annual
Datev Institute.
V. REV. FR. TANIEL GARABEDIAN RETURNS TO U.S. TODAY
V. Rev. Fr. Taniel Garabedian who was ordained a celibate priest last
year on June 6, 2004, will return to the United States today and join the
clergy serving the Eastern Prelacy. Father Taniel remained in Lebanon
following his ordination for additional training. He grew up in New Jersey
and is a graduate of the Sunday School of St. Vartanantz Church in
Ridgefield, and the St. Gregory of Datev Institute. Father Taniel will be an
instructor at the Datev Institute next week. Welcome home Father Taniel.
MESROB MASHTOTZ MEDAL PRESENTED TO EDWARD BOGHOSIAN
Last Saturday evening Archbishop Oshagan attended the 40th anniversary
celebration of the Armenian Reporter. On this occasion the Prelate presented
the founder and senior editor of the Reporter, Edward Boghosian, with the
Cilician See’s Mesrob Mashtotz Medal on behalf of His Holiness Aram I,
Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia. Archbishop Oshagan read the
Catholicos’ encyclical before presenting Mr. Boghosian with the coveted
medal.
URGENT APPEAL FROM REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC
This week we received an urgent appeal from Vardan Barseghian, the
representative of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, asking for help for a
ten-year-old girl, Yana Mikhailian, from Karabakh in need of a bone marrow
transplant. The Hematology Institute in Yerevan working with the Armenian
Bone Marrow Registry located matching bone donors in Germany. The estimated
cost of the treatment is $100,000. Time is critical and Mr. Barseghian is
asking for financial support. Baroness Caroline Cox has already pledged
$12,000. The Eastern Prelacy is accepting donations which will be forwarded
to the fund. Please send your contributions to the Armenian Prelacy, 138 E.
39th Street, New York, NY 10016. Indicate “For Yana” in the memo area of
your check, payable to Armenian Apostolic Church of America.
JEWISH WEEKLY FEATURES MAJOR ARTICLE ON GENOCIDE
The Jewish Week, a weekly newspaper published in New York City,
published an article written by a staff writer, Steve Lipman, entitled “The
Hidden Holocaust,” about the Armenian Genocide. The article, published in
the April 22nd issue, describes how the Armenian Genocide receives little if
any support from the organized Jewish community. It describes how
“Realpolitik” has triumphed over ethical considerations. The article spans
nearly three full pages of the tabloid newspaper. Lipman notes: “The Turkish
Embassy in Washington, the Israeli Consulate here, and major Jewish
organizations contacted by The Jewish Week did not respond to requests for
comment on this issue.”
FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION
This Sunday, July 3, the Armenian Church celebrates one of its five
Tabernacle Feast Days: Transfiguration (Aylakerputiun / Vartavar). The Feast
of Transfiguration is marked fourteen weeks after Easter. It commemorates an
episode in the New Testament recorded by four evangelists: Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and Peter.
The Transfiguration took place on the “Holy Mountain” (believed to be
Mt. Tabor) where Jesus had gone with Peter, James, and John to pray. As He
was praying, “His face shone like the sun and His garments became white as
light.” The Patriarch Moses and Prophet Elijah appeared at His side (Mt.
17:1-8). It was at this moment that His appearance was transfigured
revealing Himself as God to His disciples.
As in many other instances, an old pagan feast was combined with the new
Christian feast. In this case, the pagan feast of Vartavar, when Armenians
would decorate the temple of the Goddess Asdghig with roses, pigeons would
be released, and people would engage in water games. Asdghig was the goddess
of love, beauty and water. Vartavar is the name-day for those named:
Vartges, Vartavar, Vart, Alvart, Zevart, Lousvart, Nevart, Baidzar,
Vartanoush, Vartiter, Varvar, to mention a few.
In the Armenian tradition, the day after the five major feast days is
Memorial Day when traditionally the faithful go to cemeteries to venerate
their departed loved ones. Hence, this Monday, the day after
Transfiguration, is Memorial Day.
MONDAY IS INDEPENDENCE DAY
Monday, July 4, is Independence Day, marking the 229th anniversary of
the creation of the United States of America.
In his prayer for the nation, President Thomas Jefferson said on March
4, 1801: “Almighty God, Who has given us this good land for our heritage; We
humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of
Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honorable ministry,
sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and
confusion, from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our
liberties, and fashion into one united people, the multitude brought hither
out of many kindreds and tongues..”
NEW ITEMS AT PRELACY BOOKSTORE
The Prelacy Bookstore receives new inventory on a regular basis. Here
are five recent offerings.
Item #YZA003: Madenakirk Hayots, (Armenian Classical Literature), Volume
III, Sixth Century. Hardcover, $32.00. Also available: Set of Volumes I, II,
III, $110.00.
Item #RLE001: Rescued Armenian Treasures from Cilicia, by Ludwig
Reichert. Hardcover. Text in English; color reproductions, 184 pages.
$120.00.
Item #CDE034: Kutahya Tiles and Pottery from the Armenian Cathedral of
St. James, Jerusalem, by John Carswell & C.J.F. Dowsett. Volumes I and II in
one binding. Color and black and white photographs, 206 pages. $60.00.
Item #DD012: Treasures: Songs and Dances from Armenia, Armenian Cultural
Collection. DVD, featuring Tatoul Altounian Song and Dance Ensemble and
State Dance Ensemble of Armenia. $20.00.
Item #DD008: I Hate Dogs! The Last Survivor and Back to Ararat, A
Forgotten Genocide. Both on one DVD. $25.00.
Much more is available. Visit the Prelacy web site:
REMEMBERING HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN I
Yesterday, June 29, marked the sixth anniversary of the passing of His
Holiness Karekin I. His Holiness is remembered for his visionary leadership
as Prelate of the Eastern Prelacy in the 1970s, his eighteen-year dedicated
pontificate as the Catholicos of Cilicia, and his all too short four-year
pontificate as Catholicos of All Armenians. Asdvatz Hokeen Lousavoreh.
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Thomas Jefferson, at the age of 33, wrote the first draft of the
Declaration of Independence as a member of a committee that included John
Adams and Benjamin Franklin. The Continental Congress made some changes in
the draft, but by and large, it remains primarily the work of Jefferson. It
was adopted on July 4, 1776. It was the most daring document produced to
date. It was unheard of and unthinkable that a fledgling, divided country
made up of thirteen separate colonies with, at best, a ragtag army, would
have the temerity to produce a damning document against the most powerful
country of the time demanding “certain unalienable rights, that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
At Crossroads our celebration of the Fourth of July each year includes a
reading of the entire Declaration of Independence. We end today’s edition of
Crossroads with the final paragraph of the Declaration, with capitals,
punctuation, and italics exactly as originally written:
“We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in
General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for
the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the
good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these
United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States;
that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that
all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and
ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they
have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish
Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may
of right do.-And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance
on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our
Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
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KOCHARIAN RECEIVES PERNOD RICARD-EUROPE CHAIRMAN
Armenpress
YEREVAN, JUNE 30, ARMENPRESS: Tierry Billon, the chairman of French
Pernod Ricard-Europe company, one of the leading world manufacturers
of alcoholic drinks, told today Armenian president Robert Kocharian
he was fully satisfied with performance of its Armenian subsidiary-the
Yerevan Brandy Company (YBC), saying the YBC was an example of a very
successful business. “We are proud to represent high quality Armenian
products abroad,” he said. Tierry Billon was quoted by Kocharian’s
press office as saying that after YBC was privatized by Pernod Riccard
it sought to raise the quality of its produces. He said YBC’s exports
of brandy soared ten-fold after its privatization in late 1990-s. YBC
sells its products mainly to Russia and Ukraine.
Billon said parallel to production increase YBC is buying more
grape from local farmers. Last year YBC paid 3 billions to Armenian
farmers for purchase of grape, this figure is expected to rise
another 20 percent this year. He said YBC plans to establish new
vineyards here. Kocharian described Pernod Ricard as “very serious
and successful business partner,” saying also no one questions today
that the privatization of YBC was a successful deal.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

RUSSIA AND UKRAINE ARMENIAN BRANDY MAIN MARKETS
Pan Armenian News
30.06.2005 04:18
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Pernod Ricard company activities in Armenia are
rather successful. We are satisfied with the outcomes of our work
and are proud to present high quality Armenian trademark abroad,”
stated Director General and President of Pernod Ricard Europe company
Tierry Billot at a meeting with Armenian President Robert Kocharian
today, reported the Armenian leader’s Press Service. In his words,
his goal after the privatization of the Yerevan Brandy Company was
to improve the production quality. He said as compared with 1990
the export and brandy trade volume today has increased 10 times,
over 90% of the production is exported and Russia and Ukraine are
main markets. T. Billot added that simultaneous to the increase
of the volume of the brandy production the purchase of grapes will
also grow. Last year the enterprise has received grapes totaling 3
billion drams and the indicator is planned to be increased 20% this
year. The company also intends to take part in the founding of new
grape gardens. In Mr. Billot’s words, improvement of the quality of
brandy is a priority task. He also added that much work is being done
to form more favorable social security conditions for the company
officers. In his turn, R. Kocharian noted Armenia has important
partners like Pernod Ricard and no one today doubts privatization of
the Yerevan Brandy Company was a correct move.

Johansson eases past Nalbandian
By Mark Barden
BBC Sport at Wimbledon
Wednesday, 29 June, 2005
Thomas Johansson reached his first-ever Wimbledon semi-final with a
7-6 (7-5) 6-2 6-2 win over David Nalbandian.
The 12th-seeded Swede, contesting his first quarter-final in SW19,
always had the upper hand against the Argentine 18th seed, the losing
finalist in 2002.
Nalbandian, who defeated Britain’s Andy Murray in the third round,
found himself battling to hold serve from the start against a
determined opponent.
Johansson’s serve, apart from a single first-set break, was rarely
threatened.
Nalbandian was broken in the third game of the opening set but broke
back five games later for 4-4.
A see-saw tie-break saw no less than seven breaks, with Johansson
holding his nerve to finally come out on top after an hour and
13 minutes.
I couldn’t believe it when I heard I was the oldest guy left in the
draw, but I’m happy to be the oldest guy in the semis.

VIVACELL, THE SECOND MOBILE COMMUNICATION OPERATOR IN ARMENIA,
ANNOUNCES CONSUMER PRICES OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION
ARKA News Agency
June 29 2005
YEREVAN, June 29. /ARKA/. VivaCell, the second mobile communication
operator in Armenia, has already set up consumer prices of mobile
communication. Difference in prices is due to hours when a call is
made. Rush-hour calls are those made over a period between 7:00 and
23:00, and common hours are between 23:00 and 7:00. Alo preliminary
payment card costs AMD 7thnd. AMD 3.7thnd of free conversation of
a 60-day validity (all the prices are presented with taking into
account 20-percent VAT).
A number of services such as conveying brief SMS messages, voice
mail, international porting, multi-customer communication, coming
calls identification, calls readdressing are to be rendered to those
possessing Alo cards without preliminary payment and with monthly
payment.
For Alo card users, rush-our calls within VivaCell customer network
will cost AMD 90 per a minute, while per-minute price at the rest time
of day is set at AMD 80. Price for calls to ArmenTel, Karabakh-Telecom
(NKR) and Nagorno-Karabakh cable phone communication customers at
rush hours is AMD 110, and over the rest time – AMD 90.
Prices for Alo cards of reloading are AMD 2thnd (20 days), AMD 4.5thnd
(55 days), AMD 7thnd (100 days), AMD 9.5thnd (150 days) and AMD 18thnd
(300 days). Alo cards will be on sale in Armpost, Ardshininvestbank,
Converse Bank and other centers.
Payment for attaching Classic customer card to the network is set at
AMD 4.5thnd and monthly customer payment is AMD 4thnd. Prices for calls
to VivaCell other customers and Armenian cable phone communication
customers are AMD 48 at rush hours and AMD 44 at the rest time. Calls
to ArmenTel and Karabakh-Telecom (NKR) cellular customers are AMD 55
and AMD 48 accordingly. Free services are also envisaged for Classic
card users. Calls identification, regime of waiting, call readdressing,
SMS messages sending, voice mail, multi-customer communication and
international porting are among them. New paid services such as data
conveying, bill detailing, phone number concealing in case of sending
SMS massages, calls blocking, double SIM-card and international roaming
are also included in the list of the services to be rendered by the
company. Alassic cards will be on sale in the company’s offices in
Yerevan. Their addresses: Kievyan Str.11/1, Argishti Str. 4/1 and
Erebuni Str. 18.
VivaCell also offers corporative Business, Business+ and Optima cards
intended for 5 to 20, 21 to 100 and 100 and more lines accordingly.
Prices for calls within the corporative network will make AMD 40, 38
and 36 accordingly. Calls to other VivaCell’s customers and to cable
phones in Armenia will cost accordingly AMD 46, 44 and 42 at rush
hours and AMD 42, 42 and 40 at the rest time. Prices for rush-hour
calls to ArmenTel and Karabakh-Telecom (NKR) mobile customers as well
as Nagorno-Karabakh cable phones make AMD 52, 50 and 50 accordingly
and at the remaining time AMD 48.
International calls for Alo, Classic cards and corporative packages
users to Russia and Georgia will cost AMD 235 and 165 (rush-hour and
not), to other CIS countries AMD 285 and 200, to the U.S.A., Canada,
Europe, Australia – AMD 430 and 300 and to the Middle East countries
AMD 350 and 245. VivaCell’s all customers will be able to send local
SMS messages at AMD 20 and international ones at AMD 55. The company
also announced that Sunday calls within VIvaCell and cable networks
will make AMD 44. The company’s free hot line number is 111. ($1 =
AMD 442.85). M.V. –0-

Zaman, Turkey
June 29 2005
Gul: Reforms for the Muslim World Should not be Imposed from Outside
By Suleyman Kurt
Published: Wednesday June 29, 2005
zaman.com
The Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC) convened Tuesday in
the Yemen capital, Sana’a with a reform agenda.
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul called on his counterparts
to undertake reforms during the opening of the three-day meeting in
which 57 Islamic countries are participating.
Gul emphasized Turkey’s full support for the restructuring works of
the OIC and demanded support from Muslim countries for its temporary
membership into the United Nations (UN) Security Council for the
2009-2010 terms and for a lifting of the isolations on the Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Turkish Cypriot Foreign Minister
Serdar Denktas who represented the TRNC participated in the meeting
for the first time under the name “Cyprus Turkish State”.
Turkey also presented a draft to the OIC including suggestions for
sound developments in the reform process for Muslim countries. The
draft sums up how to conduct the reform efforts following main six
topics and will expectedly form the basis of the reform process. The
Turkish Foreign Minister focusing on the issue in his speech yesterday
drew attention to the significance of civil society as well: “Non
governmental organizations in Muslim countries may contribute the
reform process by aiming at good governing and the rational use
of resources.”
Gul listed the principles of reform: “Reforms should come from within
and not be imposed from without. They should be ‘genuine’. They
should be laid on legal foundations to ensure sustainable execution,
especially in the field of economics. They should be founded upon
such universal and common values as gender equality, transparency,
accountability, and the supremacy of the law. The reform process
should be flexible enough to enable progress. Reforms should be
shaped with an eye on nature and the needs of society. Their execution
should be gradual.” Gul highlighted the importance of the efforts on
political and cultural dialogue in the struggle to prevent hostility
against Islam. Announcing Turkey’s support for the Organization’s
restructuring, the Turkish Minister said, “This should be realized
in absolute transparency and with the complete agreement of all the
member states”. In his speech Gul also touched upon the problems of
Western Thrace, Palestine-Israel, Iraq and Karabag (Karabakh).
OIC Secretary-General Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in his speech
said, “Development and reforms constitute the unique real guarantee
for the ‘salvation’ of Islamic society and for a reduction in the gap
between us and the developed world before it reaches catastrophic
dimensions.” Indicating the most valuable service the OIC could
provide to Islamic Society would be to help it endure the hardships
of today and to restore its ancient impassioned days, Ihsanoglu said,
this requires a genuine reform process in the OIC.
In the meantime, Gul met his Iranian counterpart Kemal Kharazzi
at Sana’a. The two did not touch upon Tehran’s nuclear activities,
as the Turkish Minister reiterated Turkey’s support for the use of
nuclear energy for peaceful ends. Good relations with Iran would
continue in the post presidential Iranian election period as well.
Arab reporters protested the meeting for being poorly organized.

FIRST JOINT MEETING OF LEADERS OF ARMENIAN PARTIES OF CENTRE-LEFTIST
FORCES UNION TO BE HELD JUNE 30
YEREVAN, June 28. /ARKA/. First joint meeting of leaders of Armenian
parties of Centre-Leftist Forces Union will be held June 30 in the
office of United Communist Party (UCP). According to the source
in UCP, the participants of the meeting will determine the date of
Centre-Leftist Forces Union congress, its format and the membership
of foreign guests. The meeting will be held behind closed doors,
media is not permitted.
The Centre-Leftist Forces Union of Armenia was formed on the initiative
of the Progressive Party of Armenia and pursues the aim of uniting
broad masses of the Armenian community around ideas like stability
and reforms. L.V.-0–

GORAN LENNMARKER REPORT ON KARABAKH CAUSES BAKU DISCONTENT
Pan Armenian News
28.06.2005 07:36
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The report on Nagorno Karabakh drawn up by Goran
Lennmarker will be heard at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly summer
session to be held in Washington for the first time. Azeri delegation
to the OSCE PA headed by Chairman of the Standing Committee for
Economic Affairs of the Milli Mejlis Satar Safarov will also leave
for Washington to take part in the event. “We are not satisfied with
some provisions of the Lennmarker report. We will insist that the
report call Armenia an aggressor,” Satar Safarov said, reported the
Yerkir newspaper.

The Evening Standard (London)
June 27, 2005
FREAKS, FRAUDS AND CASPIAN ADVENTURERS
THE ORIENTALIST: SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF A STRANGE AND DANGEROUS LIFE
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
BY TOM REISS
CHATTO, £16.99)
When, in 1991, I first started visiting and writing about Baku, the
turn-of-the-century oil-boom city on the Caspian Sea (now capital of
the ex-Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan), I took a novel called Ali and
Nino by a mysterious author called Kurban Said.
I went to witness the civil wars of the Soviet break-up and found a
new ‘Great Game’ for the oil riches of Baku. The beautiful novel by
Kurban Said was a poetical celebration of love and cosmopolitanism
betwixt East and West in revolutionary times: the Romeo and Juliet
of the Caspian. Azeris told me proudly that this Moslem author was
Azeri. I longed to know: who was Kurban Said? No one knew. Later,
researching my biography of Stalin, I read one of the earliest Stalin
biographies by Essad Bey. Who was Essad Bey? No one knew.
Now Tom Reiss’s work reveals Kurban Said and Essad Bey are the same
man. Since I was familiar with Baku and those books, I feared this
might be another ignorant journalistic travelogue. Far from it.
Sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking, beautifully written,
glorying in its tolerance and curiosity, The Orientalist is an
exquisite and flamboyant biography of one of the most mysterious
literary butterflies of our time.
Featuring a bizarre cast of freaks and adventurers, it is not only
a detective-story, but also an anthropological study and a crazed
alternative history of the early 20th century.
Kurban Said and Essad Bey were really Lev Nussimbaum, spoilt son of a
Baku oil tycoon born in a palace at the centre of that city’s grand,
cultured Jewish-Russian milieu just as the 1905 Revolution shook the
Romanov Empire and unleashed vicious ethnic battles between Armenians
and Turkic Azeris.
The Russian Revolution and Civil War of 1917/18 shattered this
tolerant, rarefied world, destroying Nussimbaum’s fortune. Baku was
tossed savagely between Turks, British and Bolsheviks: the Nussimbaums
escaped via Persia and Georgia to Istanbul, thence to revolutionary
Germany. Fragile calm returned under Weimar. Here the Nussimbaums
spent their savings on Lev’s education and sank into emigre poverty
like other Russian refugees.
Then Lev converted from Judaism to Islam and his own romanticised
version of the Orient, re-making himself as Essad Bey, Muslim ‘prince’.
His vision resembled that of Disraeli in his novels: doesn’t every Jew
of Sephardic descent – Disraeli hailed from Morocco – harbour dreams of
Oriental grandeur? Essad Bey started to write a bestseller annually,
starting with Blood and Oil in the Orient. This new celebrity loved
to dress up in ‘Oriental’ costumes, play up for American journalists,
posing for photographs.
He knew everyone in Weimar Berlin and pre-Anschluss Vienna, then
married a beautiful jazz poetess, Erika Lowendahl, daughter of an
American/Czech shoe millionaire. The marriage ended in a notorious
society divorce that almost broke Essad Bey: she accused him of being
a fraud and keeping a harem! Heartbroken, he became Kurban Said and
wrote Ali and Nino.
He fled to Positano in Italy where he wanted to write Mussolini’s
biography but could only earn a living by giving his own rights to
an Austrian baroness, losing his identity as an author, until now.
‘The Moslem’ survived on the charity of a local contessa, an
Algerian-Italian drug/arms-dealer/paratrooper, and the local
pharmacist, who gave him morphine. He needed it: a rare gangrene,
Raynaud’s Syndrome, was agonisingly consuming Lev, aged 35. He died
in 1942.
No ordinary disease would do for Essad Bey, whose youth resembles
a Caspian Proust, whose adventures resemble Michael Moorcock’s Pyat
novels, whose death has something of The English Patient. Meanwhile,
everyone should read Ali and Nino, newly republished.
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PACE to mull Garabagh conflict in September
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
June 27 2005
Baku, June 23, AssA-Irada
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) temporary
committee on Upper Garabagh conflict decided on Friday to discuss
ways of settling the conflict in Paris on September 12.
Parliamentary delegates from the conflicting sides represented at
PACE as well as representatives of the mediating OSCE Minsk Group
member states will participate in the meeting to last 24 hours,
said member of the Azeri delegation at PACE Asim Mollazada.
Mollazada said Azerbaijan has suggested that the Committee cooperate
with the Venice Commission in outlining the legal aspects of the
conflict resolution.
The Azeri delegation appealed earlier to the PACE Ministerial
Committee over the inactivity of the temporary committee. The appeal
said that although the Committee has been operating for six months,
its experts have not visited the conflict zone yet. The Azerbaijani
parliamentarians raised the issue on realization of the visits in
July at the Ministerial Committee.
The temporary committee was established on the basis of a resolution
passed by PACE in its winter session.*